Powerset is gonna get Google but Good! On Monday, a story on Powerset launched a new semantic search engine that allows users to input natural language queries to find items. So far, Powerset simply indexes Wikipedia, but the speculation is that the site may branch out to the Web at large.

WE LOVE LIBRARIANS!!! He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000 national security letters the government issues each year, that "you can push back on these," Kahle said.

National Indian Education Study Part I The National Indian Education Study (NIES) is a two-part study designed to describe the condition of education for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in the United States. The first part, providing in-depth information on the academic performance of fourth- and eighth-grade AI/AN students on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics and reading, will be released May 14. The results will be available online at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard on the day of release.

LinuxSecurity.com This week security advisories were issued for CUPS, Emacs, KDE, LTSP, OpenOffice.org, b2evolution, blender, cacti, cpio, gpdf, kazehakase, kdelibs, kernel, mozilla-thunderbird, openssh, php, roundup, wordpress, and multiple X11 terminals. The distributors included Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu.

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2008-05-01 - 2008-05-08

GRANTS - After-School Music Programs, Musical Instruments for Existing K-12 Music Programs, Tolerance Programs,Nature of Learning,Children's Dental Health, Private Enterprise Education, interdisciplinary environmental lessons, professional development teaching science,school's parent groups, pediatric residents to plan community-based child health initiatives,schools free educational equipment in exchange for labels from Campbell products.

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.

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[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (May 2, 2008) Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include...* Emergency Management for Higher Education Grants -- CFDA# 84.184T * Center on Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities -- CFDA# 84.133A-12 * Centers for Independent Living -- CFDA# 84.132A

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